The French Con Man Who Fooled The FBI — How A 23-Year-Old Impersonated A Missing Texas Boy And Lived With His Family For Months
They needed a specific reason to look critically, and that reason only emerged when Parker provided the tip to Interpol.
The sixteen months was not simply a testament to Bourdin’s deception skills.
It was also a function of the specific social and institutional environment in which the deception operated, and of the specific psychological situation of the people he was deceiving.
The Specific Horror Of What He Did To The Family
It is possible to discuss the Barclay-Bourdin case with a kind of cool analytical detachment that fails to honor what the family actually experienced.
The Barclay family did not simply encounter an interesting psychological phenomenon or a sophisticated criminal.
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